10 killed in Baghdad suicide car bombing

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BAGHDAD (AFP) — Ten people were killed and 15 hurt when a suicide bomber blew up his car outside a bakery in southwest Baghdad Saturday evening as Muslims were preparing to break the Ramadan fast, officials said.

The blast occurred while people were waiting to buy bread in the mainly Shiite district of Amel about half an hour before the start of the "iftar" meal that breaks the daily fast, an interior ministry official and a medic said.

"People were queuing for bread at the time," the interior ministry official said, adding that 15 people had also been wounded.

"We received the bodies of 10 people, all of them men," a hospital official said. "We also admitted seven people suffering shrapnel wounds."

The interior ministry official said security forces...